I read Grave Witch surprisingly easily. Kalayna Price delivers to the readers everything supposed to be in an urban fantasy novel - a criminal investigation, a tough and stubborn lead female character, tons of magic and cool men. I enjoyed reading the novel, but in retrospect I feel, as if I’ve eaten popcorn – there is something to chew on, but nothing to fill in the belly. Grave Witch makes a very pleasant, but not memorable reading.
Seventy years after the witches and the fae has revealed their existence, the political games in Necros city, USA, are exacerbating due to the death of the leader of the anti-magic Human First Party. The corpse of the late Governor Coleman is thoroughly examined in the city morgue, but only the Grave Witch Alexis Craft notices that there is something wrong. Firstly the skin of the body is carved with magical glyphs, which are visible only for Alex, then she can not raise the governor’s Shadow. Upon leaving the police department Alex survives an assassination attempt.
